Sentences with phrase «by contemporary american»

The show, featuring abstract art by contemporary American and Canadian artists - all second generation exponents of Abstract Expressionism - subsequently travelled to the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, and the Art Museum of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario).

Its remit was avant - garde art by contemporary American artists.

The organizers of the show were the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, whose original intention was to showcase a selection of works exclusively by contemporary American artists - including hypermodern painters from the Ashcan School and The Eight, as well as more traditional artists from the National Academy of Design.

1987 A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women, The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 5 — November 15, 1987.

Be sure to check out Pastel by Nicolas Party, a Swiss - born painter who creates strikingly color - saturated images, and Jonas Woods's Portraits, a collection of works by the contemporary American painter.

Strengths in the art collection include the Alice and Bill Wright Photography Collection, American Depression - era Prints, the Texas Art Collection, the Clint Hamilton Collection, and artwork by contemporary American artists with Texas connections.

For a price said to be in the low millions, the purchase added to the museum's holdings more than 150 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by contemporary American, Canadian and European artists who owe their reputations in some measure to Greenberg's advocacy.

Kathryn Markel Owner, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY and Bridgehampton, NY Co-Juror for the National Show: The Figure, 2015 Kathryn Markel has owned Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, which specializes in painting and work on paper by contemporary American artists, since 1975.

Viewpoint: the Artist as Photographer, Summit Art Center, New Jersey, November 4 — December 30, 1984 (Catalogue) Drawings by Contemporary American Figurative Artists, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, September 26 — November 4, 1984 Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, June 22 — August 26, 1984 (Catalogue) The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, May 5 — July 16, 1984.

Five years later, the Museum's first exhibition included 45 paintings by contemporary American artists.

The gallery primarily exhibits work by contemporary American artists with a focus on emerging artists.

Whitney Museum of American Art Established in 1931 by the sculptor and art - collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum is dedicated to painting and sculpture by contemporary American artists, and now holds 18,000 items across a wide variety of media.

This beautifully compiled exhibition catalogue for From Here to There at the Walker Art Center features more than 200 photographs by contemporary American photographer Alec Soth.

The core of the Sweeny Collection at the MFA was inspired by the 1987 exhibition A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women, curated by legendary print specialists Richard S. Field and Ruth E. Fine.

«From Thornton Dial's magisterial constructions to the emblematic compositions by the Gee's Bend quilters from the 1930s onwards, this extraordinary group of works contributes immeasurably to the Museum's representation of works by contemporary American artists and augments on a historic scale its holdings of contemporary art,» said Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum, in a press release announcing the donation.

Take a look at the brief history of American art focusing on the 19th, 20th and 21st century and the ten most iconic works by contemporary American artists

It serves as a point of departure in much the same way the horse and head function in paintings by the contemporary American artist Susan Rothenberg (MATRIX 3).

«Maximum Coverage: Wearables by Contemporary American Artists», John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, USA [Traveled to: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA]

An oil on canvas landscape painting by contemporary American realist Willard Dixon.

«From Thornton Dial's magisterial constructions to the emblematic compositions by the Gee's Bend quilters from the 1930s onwards, this extraordinary group of works contributes immeasurably to the Museum's representation of works by contemporary American artists and augments on a historic scale its holdings of contemporary art,» said Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum, in a museum press release.

1987 A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts (October 5 — November 15).

But honestly, the most riveting theater I've seen in the past few years is produced locally, by the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV where we now live.

This group are already legends within the classical music community for their crystal - pure, otherworldly voices and their immense artistic range, with a songbook that ranges from medieval European devotional music to American shape - note hymns to works by contemporary American and English composers; and in the first half of this concert, they shared some of that range.

Not exact matches

Credited with «the rise of contemporary Asian - American cuisine» by the New York Times and named the «most important restaurant in America» by Bon Appétit magazine, Momofuku has opened restaurants in the United States, Australia, and Canada.

The best analysis of the Greenbacks by a Civil War contemporary was written by a Canadian - American astronomer, Simon Newcomb.

Government presumably by and for the people ends up a government by experts because a government formed by people as excessively individualistic as contemporary Americans are would seem to be ungovernable.

For converts like my wife and «reverts» like me, the fact that contemporary American Catholicism is led by the likes of Chaput, Dolan, George, Lori, Cordileone, Gomez, and O'Connell, «JPII men» shaped by the theology of Benedict XVI and full of the joy of Pope Francis, is a large part of the reason why we are in the Church today and not in the wilderness.

While difficult to define, contemporary American conservatism seems to be shaped by a certain set of core commitments.

Brinton says some contemporary Americans are making the same mistake their Civil War ancestors did by twisting the Bible to support their own battle cries.

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

The Catholicity of the Reformation Edited by Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson Eerdmans, 112 pages, $ 12 Two visions of the Church struggle for dominance in contemporary American Protestantism.

Terror was created in the raids for heads and women in Africa, Assam and Iryan Jaya, the raids for pillage by Vikings, Vandals and Visigoths, and the raids for land by nearly every people from the time of Genghis Khan to the settling of the American frontier to the development of logging companies in contemporary Brazil.

Not according to the contemporary Tocquevilles canvassed by former San Diego State professor of literature James C. Simmons in Americans: The View From Abroad.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

Hence, in the current crisis of values in our contemporary culture, their approach provides a more open affirmation of the historical capability of democratic ideas and institutions («the American mind») to develop by uncovering their deepest roots.

Drawn from learning that is both vast and profound, the rich details and frequently exciting flashes of insight provided by this work confirm the stature of Robert Jenson among contemporary theologians» a stature that, it seems to this foreign observer, is not sufficiently recognized in American theology.

In God and Gold Mead's lens zooms out to this wider angle, locating the contemporary world in a global order that began among Dutch merchants in the 17th century and that has been fundamentally shaped by Anglo - American power and ideas since 1688.

And Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most renowned Afro - American woman writers, wrote reactionary essays (some of which appeared in the Reader's Digest) and gave her allegiance to the Republican Party — facts often overlooked by her contemporary feminist followers.

It is aptly and embarrassingly illustrated by the failure of contemporary African - American church studies adequately to analyze the recent scandal in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc..

Most contemporary «American» theologies are still influenced by some unexamined philosophical assumptions about how truth is known.

Started by an entrepreneurial woman, ETKIE is an ethical for - profit company that provides Native American beaders a platform to create contemporary designs using the artistic traditions passed down from generations.

This contrasts with the climate of American public schooling as described by sociologist Anthony Bryk et al. in Catholic Schools and the Common Good (1993, 2009): «Mirroring the spiritual vacuum at the heart of contemporary American society, schools now enculturate this emptiness in our children....

Studies of 19th - century topics (with concern for contemporary relevance) have been undertaken by Gayle Carlton Felton, who examined Methodist baptismal teaching and practices in the previous century (Duke, 1987), and by Carol Marie Norén, who studied the doctrine of Christian perfection as expressed in the preaching of a Swedish - American Methodist preacher of sanctification, Nels O. Westergreen (Princeton University, 1986) A dissertation on 19th - century Methodist services for marriage and burial is currently under way at Notre Dame by Karen Westerfield Tucker.

It is the individual's right to celebrate or not celebrate Christmas based on their own beliefs, 240 million American Christians believe in the birth of Jesus Christ, we are simply providing a platform to express their belief by voting in numbers that can not be disputed within the same commercial forum that contemporary success is judged.

As the hours went by, tempers frayed as the African expressed his confidence in the clear words of scripture, while the American stressed the need to interpret the Bible in the light of modern scholarship and contemporary mores.

«By helping to clear away the «structural underbrush» of contemporary racism,» Levine and Harmon inform us, The Death of an American Jewish Community has «tried to foster understanding and, ultimately, new means of resolution.»

With the publication of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz's sober assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism by Michael W. Cuneo Oxford University Press, 214 pages, $ 27.50

As William Appleman Williams deliberately sought to reshape and radicalize U.S. foreign policy through a revisionist (and essentially Marxist) reading of the history of America's encounter with the world, so Jay Dolan has, with energy and imagination, sought to buttress the «progressive» agenda in contemporary American Catholicism and the cause of an «independent American Catholic Church» by a radical retelling of the story.